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GLOBELICS programme finalized
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
The 2009 edition of the GLOBELICS conference, which this year is a joint effort between the Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (CRES), Senegal and UNU-MERIT will take place 6-8 October in Dakar, Senegal. The opening ceremony will be attended by the President of Senegal, Maître Abdoulaye Wade, the Minister of Higher Education, Moustapha Sourang and the Minister of Research, Amadou Tidiane Ba. The research agenda includes a rich and varied contribution from Africa (the largest continental share), Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. The conference will be closed by Abdoulaye Diagne, Director of CRES and Luc Soete, Director of UNU-MERIT on 8 October.
The conference programme has been finalized- to view please follow the link below.
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Professor Ernest Aryeetey key-note speaker at GLOBELICS
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
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| Professor Ernest Aryeetey |
In further GLOBELICS 2009 related news, we are pleased to announce that Professor Ernest Aryeetey will deliver the keynote speech at the opening ceremony on 6 October. Professor Aryeetey is presently Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. From January 2010 onwards he will join the Brookings Institution in the US as senior fellow and Director of the Africa Growth Initiative. His research focuses on economic development in Africa, regional integration, economic reforms and financial systems in support of development and small enterprise development.
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Successful workshop in Dakar
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
UNU-MERIT and the Senegalese twinning partners CRES jointly organized a workshop and training course on econometric evaluation methods for development programmes in Dakar, Senegal. The workshop was attended by about 30 selected researchers and PhD students from CRES, the Ministry of Agriculture, Senegal, the Department of Statistics, Senegal and the University of Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The workshop generated a lot of interest, which resulted, among other things, in a tentative plan to set up a joint research programme on the evaluation of development policies in Africa between CRES and UNU-MERIT.
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New Faces at UNU-MERIT: PhD class of 2009
Posted: 2009-09-03 |
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| UNU-MERIT welcomes the new batch of PhD students who were admitted to the PhD programme in the Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change. Pictured from left to right are Jocelyn Olivari Narea (Chile), Sayan Samanta (India), Alejandro Lavopa (Argentina), Eveline in de Braek (PhD secretary), Tatevik Poghosyan (Armenia), Robin Cowan (Dean of the PhD programme), Daniel Opolot (Uganda), Samyukta Bhupatiraju (India) and François Lafond (France). The latter two are students affiliated with the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University and will be taking the courses at UNU-MERIT. A third student from the School of Business and Economics, Giorgio Triulzi (Italy) is not pictured. |
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DIMETIC course
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
The DIMETIC programme trains younger economists interested in the Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe, providing opportunities for direct interaction between younger researchers and senior experts in the field. The autumn course takes place each year at UNU-MERIT. This year's programme runs from 12-23 October. The first week will focus on regional innovation systems, clusters and dynamics whilst the second highlight the economy as a complex evolving system, network theory, evolutionary models and computational tools.
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Gregor Bierhals
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
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| Gregor Bierhals |
Gregor Bierhals (Germany) joined UNU-MERIT as a research-fellow at the beginning of August 2009. He is currently involved in the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR)-project that is managed by UNU-MERIT’s Collaborative Creativity Group (CCG). Gregor has a strong interest in science and technology and whilst obtaining a Master’s degree in Media and Culture at the Maastricht University, he wrote his thesis on innovative ways for museums to interact, and improve relations with, younger generations through Web 2.0 and social networking websites. Before coming to UNU-MERIT, Gregor gained some practical experience at the Frauenhofer-institute in Karlsruhe.
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Multinational and Emerging Economies – the Quest for Innovation and Sustainability
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma (University of Groningen), Geert Duysters (Eindhoven University of Technology, UNU-MERIT and Tilburg University) and Ionara Costa (UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University). With contributions from numerous UNU-MERIT research-fellows: T. An, L. Alcorta, I. Costa, W. Dolfsma, Q. Dong, A. Doranova, G. Duysters, G.-J. Eenhoorn, S. Filippov, A. Goldstein, J. F. Den Hertog, C. Huang, J. Jacob, K. Kalotay, N. N. Kwanjai, L. Mytelka, R. Narula, R. Perrot, S. SadreGhazi, T. Saebi, F. Santiago-Rodriguez, N. Sharif, L. Soete and B. Urem.
This book looks at the rapid changing global economy and the role of multinational corporation (MNCs) in this transformation. The book provides novel and profound analyses of how MNCs and emerging economies are related, and how this relationship affects the dynamics of the global economy. In particular, the authors deal with the nexus between multinationals, emerging economies and innovation from a variety of different perspectives. Innovation is regarded as a core driving force in the global economy but the authors show how it can impede as well as encourage sustainability. This book brings together insights from business studies and economies and combines concise theoretical discussion with empirical analyses of unique data.
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The New Economics of Technology Policy
Posted: 2009-09-02 | Updated: 2009-09-03
Edited by Dominique Foray, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. With contribution from the following scholars, with among them several UNU-MERIT-linked research-fellows: P. Aghion, S. Arvaniti, Y. Benkler, I.M. Cockburn, D. Czarnitzki, P.A. David, D. Encaoua, I. Feller, D. Foray, H. Gersbach, B.H. Hall, D. Harhoff, H. Hollenstein, B. Hotz-Hart,
J. Mairesse, F. Malerba, P. Mohnen, D.C. Mowery, R.R. Nelson, N. Rosenberg, B.N. Sampat,
M. Schankermann, L. Soete, W.E. Steinmueller, N. Sydow, A.A. Toole, M. Trajtenberg, R. Veugelers and E. von Hippel.
In short, this innovative book comprehensively sheds light on the theory and practice of technological policies by employing modern analytical tools and economic techniques.
The book focuses on all public interventions intended to influence the intensity, composition and direction of technological innovations within a given entity such as a region, country or group of countries. Dominique Foray has gathered together many of the leading scholars in the field to comprehensively explore numerous avenues and pathways of research. Bringing together a collection of policy-oriented papers, this book will strongly appeal to policy-makers, academic
researchers and graduate students with an interest in economics, public policy, science, technology and society.
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